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Several writers played with the idea of what life online and off-line would look like. TIME contributor Robert Wright explains why we will never log off again, while FORTUNE columnist Stanley Bing does a hilarious send-up of what will happen to today's couch potatoes. (Hint: think mashed.) David Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale, argues that despite the way our lives are being turned into data streams, we will have as much privacy as we need. Novelist Mark Leyner predicts, tongue slightly in cheek, that no longer will we have to go to sporting events...
...years ago, politics is decided by the establishment elites in nice restaurants and country clubs. People often just accept what the elites decide because they're too busy with their own lives. A lot of that happens here, too; but every once in a while Americans get off their couch. The people of New Hampshire expected the politicians to come into their town halls and school gymnasiums, answer their questions and listen to their concerns. How many countries require this of candidates for the highest executive office of their land...
...found love where he has made a pattern of finding it and everything else, in wealth; new wife Cindy had a cute smile and, by the way, the bank account of her family's large Budweiser beer distribution company. Cindy, a woman who doesn't exactly look in her couch for spare change when she wants to order pizza, certainly hasn't hurt his bid for the White House. Despite her financial influence, the new marriage meant so much to McCain that he ignored his wife to the point where she became a vicodin and percocet addict. "Maybe...
...often stunning visually, and, at the same time, she uses them as a means of making associations and narratives. She says that she is intrigued by Freud's theory of the unconscious and has made a photogram of a white feather that came from the pillow on the infamous couch. The feather is associated with slumber, slumber with dreams, dreams with the unconscious and then we're back again at Freud. Parker often takes us on these wonderful little loops. She strings these narratives and chains of association through both her finished works and their making. With Cold Dark Matter...
...learn, has its price. If I forget to have my Sims use the toilet, they'll relieve themselves on the floor, leaving unsightly puddles. If they don't learn to cook, the stove will catch fire. Forget to buy a burglar alarm, and you may wake up without a couch--or a house...